56 Quotes by Leon Kass

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.